Upcoming changes to benefits
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Have no idea who Michael is and frankly don't care at this hour.
But, again, sleep well.
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Yeah this hour can't sleep wonder why probably because I'm feeling secure that the green paper will increase our living standards and bring security and a rainbow birds chirping blue skies
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Duh 🙄🤣 thank you!
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You might want to try. On the plus side, if the PIP reports tonight are true, at least a partial climbdown is likely on Tuesday. That's before we've even really started. Even if you can't sleep, getting off here for a few hours might help. We're unlikely to hear too much more Sunday. I suspect they will wait to assess the mood of MPs Monday. Right now, Liz Kendall probably doesn't know what she will announce this week so there's little to be gained by speculating.
Until then, we could all do worse than take a break, enjoy the sunshine and try and do something enjoyable Sunday.
I do hope you are able to sleep for at least a while.
Night night.
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Same here (COPD long covid etc etc), ❤️ . I didn't have my heating on prior to Xmas got pneumonia boxing day / emergency admission to hospital. Subsequently became double pneumonia and 30% loss of kidney function. Was 'reprimanded' for sitting in the cold and I eat every other day. But it's all so short sighted, goodness knows the cost of hospital/gp appts since, medications, 8 x blood tests and now permanently worse health. For the sake of a bit of help, all the shenanigans I've had to go through to get some help has also made my conditions so much worse. I just think it's so sad that thing's can come to this. On the plus side it's my eating day today 😋
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I scare myself tbh more than they scare me. That sounds odd I know but I'm guessing 'being put in the preparing for work section means we'd have to accept our commitments for that. I know I will not. What I'm preparing for is going to the loo (health condition) same old nonsense just a different day, so god only knows what I'll get. I'm thinking of ringing the food bank next week to see if can go more often than 6 monthly 🤔 I just will not be bullied by anyone else.
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I came to say that, if I could take to the streets I'd most likely be able to work and would want to. My dad used to have a saying, 'the pen is mightier than the sword'. I need to get my thinking cap on, brain fog allowing.
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I read somewhere this morning that one thing they're considering is allowing people to go back on their benefit easily if they trial going to work (sorry, I think it was that or maybe keeping it whilst they trial work but I'm sure it was the former). Either way, if this happens please get it in writing although even that is spurious.
My experience, albeit yrs ago in 2010, told a very different story. I was in receipt of DLA and guaranteed (verbally) that I would still receive it if I started nurse training. Was in Uni for months before going to wards. The DLA was stopped within two weeks of starting at Uni.
'Luckily', the Uni were helping me via Disabled Support and that was an absolute lifeline.
I couldn't work in addition to Uni as mum had cancer and was supporting her but had 3 part time jobs in my 2nd and 3rd year and got tax credits.
Fast forward after qualifying in 2013 to now. Ten years nursing, caught Covid three times at work - no PPE at nursing home and then when moved to another job after being dismissed for being off ill was sent from CLEAN surgical area to help on ward where I had 5 patients whose Covid tests came back positive New Years Day, 2022. I wasn't allowed a respiratory mask like colleagues as I'd not been FITT tested despite me chasing the team to test me so wore a blue mask. Caught Covid for the third time.
One of the worse aspects of this was I'd refused to go to ward but was forced/ had no choice (i should have stood my ground) ; I was working in clean area and other staff too were sent to Covid areas and allowed back to clean area where patients were having surgery, the next day, despite not knowing at that point if they'd caught Covid. They had. Talk about putting patients at risk.
In Nov 2020 it affected my intestines that has never gone/got worse and 4 diagnoses of bowel conditions. In January 22 it affected my lungs and has, along with c 20 other health conditions, completely decimated my health. Long covid which these two words don't even begin to express the reality, brain, lungs joints and bowels affected and what I like to call 'peripherals', eyes, ears 🙄).
Sorry for rant but my point is I would not trust ANYTHING the DWP or government say. I don't trust the NHS after my experiences either (far, far worse than what I've detailed here including whistleblowing) and will, in general, avoid going in unless I am literally on my last legs. One of the saddest realisations is my experiences - especially at work - worsened by health, likely irreversibly, and I didn't know that at the time.
I am so angry when I hear 'taking the mickey' type of comments. I know absolutely who was taking the mickey out of me leaving my health so poor I'd be euthanased if I was a dog.
All I am saying is please take care, please question and challenge anything and everything. Please protect your health as very best you can. The saying if you don't have your health you have nothing is so true in my case. I have to now try and galvanise my anger, and sadness, into action. I don't know what that is yet but I'll summon it up from somewhere.
Much love to everyone on here ❤️
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Not sure how reassuring this will be for folks but this was on Breakfast TV just now.
It’s an article in The Observer.
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Like everybody else on Scope I have been trying hard to not get overwhelmed with fear as it is not good for my physical or mental health but it is difficult to avoid the fearmongering in the news. I have been switching the news off the second it starts and trying to avoid reading newspapers.
We don't have definite details yet, we do know cuts are coming and we know they are likely to be the harshest cuts disabled people have ever faced. It is really hard for me to even begin to wrap my head around how I will manage financially if the cuts are as harsh as predicted.
I don't think my husband will have any other option but to return to work full time and I think it is a point we are missing, I think this is also a push to put disabled people in such an untenable position that their carer sees no other option but to return to work, I know I am fortunate to even have that as an option as I know many people will not have that option as they are single.
Many carers will be in the same situation and need to return to work which will save the government huge amounts of money through not paying them carers allowance and taking lots of disabled people off of Universal credit completely.
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Bbc1 news this morning I saw headlines saying U Turn on pip disability due to labour Backlash backbenchers fingers crossed guys
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They're only talking about back downing on rate freezing. There's no mention of them backing down when it comes to stricter eligibility, which is the real issue.
They are definitely targeting people with mental ill health and disabilities (those of us with autism etc.) primarily - I think that's their goal here as these issues are mostly affecting younger people who they believe are shirking work.
I'm not so young anymore (39) and I work full time which is made possible, in huge part, to the PIP I receive. Without it, working would be incredibly difficult for me probably due to the fact that the cost of living is so high regardless but also that most jobs really don't pay very well and when you add to the fact the increased likelihood of sickness (and not being paid for being sick) that comes with disability, it's pretty obvious why we need it.
Like you all, I am trying not to worry too much about it but I do believe they will push this through as they seem determined to penalise a specific group of people.4 -
What a load of ****
Freezing PIP is the least of people with disabilities problems, they need to leave lcwra alone as this benefit is a life line for disabled people
Roll on Tuesday so we know once and for all, and hopefully if she goes along with cutting lcwra there will be uproar from mps
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I agree. Flaws in how it would all be implemented have been evident from start. It’s a way for Reeves to implement a nationwide tax plan.. sacrifice the disabled first then tax the masses. Morgan McSweeny and empty eyed Paddy are the architects of these sorts of shockers.. neither of them have any loyalty to a party or political ethos. They’re a couple of Dominic Cummings? I was going to watch Laura Kunesberg on the Beeb but don’t know whether I have the stomach for it.. probably scripted!
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I read starmer coping trump with cutting things. They're doing welfare cuts as well. Plus he's got mcsweeny whatever he's called advising him. Diane Abbot who is against the cuts was shut out of the meetings.
Where is that joke of a mp Timms ? He should be standing up for us. We should email him and tell him and reeves that people can't see a future. I've read on a few sites about people not wanting to be here. Honestly I'm struggling with this. I had few years ago left with nothing because of dwp. I managed to getba part time job then ,but unable to now
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I’m not going to bother watching Wes Streeting on Kuenssberg but I’m following along on the BBC app’s live reporting so I can post the highlights of what’s said if anyone wants!
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Starting off strong…
Laura asks Streeting: as a Labour politician, did you get into politics to take money from the poorest?
He says we don't want to take money from the poorest people in Britain, and adds he's a product of the welfare system. He says he grew up in a council house and says a state education gave him "every opportunity".
Streeting says that one in 10 people are off sick from work. He says people who can't work need support, and calls for more people to get back to work.
Link is if anyone else wants to follow along
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She's asking the wrong question. We are least worried about the PIP freeze. She's not very well informed is she
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InInteresting article in an Irish newspaper recently relating to McSweeney. Seems that he is afforded the same guru status within Labour as Cummings once was with Johnson. Like with Dom, the reasons for this are not exactly apparent. The term 'rose without trace' springs to mind with MM.
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Well it's finally got the better of me, I have been spiralling ever since I read about the changes. I felt I was making progress and if you had asked me a few months ago I never would have thought it would be the government that would cause me to start self harming again after going so long with out it happening but it's my last resort when I feel there is no other way to release the anxiety which builds to a level which is unbearable. They have no clue how this effects people. Now I'm battling with the other issue of thinking if I pick up a drink it will make everything feel better but this will be the end of me if that part of me wins, after being sober for 3 years I feel like all the hard work is just being ripped away by these people who have no clue what it's like to live with mental health/addiction. Just want them to say what's happening already so we all know where we stand
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